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  • Could have been better...

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I’ve not been writing… I’ve been grumpy…. basically I’ve been awaiting a CAT scan and then the results of said scan, to find out ‘what next’. Its proper horrid when your life is up in the air and you’ve no idea how to plan for the months or weeks ahead.

    One of the results of this inability to plan is I decided to invite a few friends round for a birthday tea……

  • phew...only a registrar

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    …so that’s okay then.

    That explains my overlong visit and descent into worry… the person I saw on Monday is a new(ish) and enthusiastic registrar. No wonder I was in there so long.

    Yesterday was R-CHOP (chemo) number 5.

    Having had a vomiting session the day before (very like the one at the beginning of this cycle- but not worth going into hospital with) I was weak as a kitten and slept through…

  • egads… this glass may not be totally full but actually half empty

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    You know what I hate?

    When medical bods disagree with each other.

    I’m up for my 5th R-CHOP chemo on Thursday and then my consusltant had me down for a CT scan…. and after that they’d make a decision as to whether I’ll be having the rest of a 6 cylce course (ie one more) or an 8 cycle course (3 more) – I’m sure you can guess which I was hoping for.

    Today, I turn up for my pre…

  • Chemo number 4

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I quite enjoyed today... if such a thing is possible. I took myself off to my chemotherapy, with a bottle of water and a book I wanted to finish (One Man and his Bike by Mike Carter if you're interested..it made me laugh out loud and spit sandwich on my knee). I got a corner chair, took my boots off and settled down cross legged. The cancer specialist nurse came to tell me the PET scan looked pretty good, still…

  • Gosh..so this it what normal feels like!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I’m in my ‘good week’ of my three week chemo cycle…well… usually its about a week but this cycle its been foreshortened by the stinky cold that lingered and lingered.

    Yesterday I felt quite chipper and was booked in for a PETCT scan down in Cambridge. The mobile unit that in the leaflet looked to be parked in a green and pleasant land turns out to be in a car park at Addenbrookes…